COSD offers the latest technology to help students understand the therapies they will be using when they intern or become speech language pathologists. The VitalStim unit uses electrical pulses to help patients re-learn how to swallow.

Faculty Scholarship Activity

All of the faculty maintain active clinical research programs. Faculty use grant funding to support their scholarly interests, publish and present their research at local, state, regional and national conferences. Much of their research includes graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in learning more about research in speech-language pathology and audiology. The following are some of the faculty’s recent scholarship.

Authors in bolded text are faculty in COSD, and authors with an asterisk are students.

Lanter, E., "Pearson Research Assistance to Support Materials for Radford University Study: Early Writing Achievements in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Initial Investigation," Sponsored by Pearson Assessments, $335.00. (November 7, 2018 - September 1, 2020).